ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses Alvin Plantinga's early religious epistemology with the purpose of better understanding Plantinga's current proposal by placing it in the context of his previous work. He divides Plantinga's work on religious epistemology into three periods or 'stages'. Plantinga's first publication on religious epistemology, God and Other Minds, published in 1967, comprises Stage I. These first seeds of Plantinga's 'Reformed epistemology' bore fruit during Stage II. The result was a series of articles that together led up to the publication of 'Reason and Belief in God' in 1983. The author also discusses Stages I and II, with greater emphasis given to Stage II. The perennial target of Plantinga's animadversions is a view that has been labeled evidentialism. The author looks at classical foundationalism and briefly discusses the characteristics of foundationalism in general. He describes all different species of objections to Plantinga's 'Reformed Epistemology'.
